Seth Messenger : MacBook Air M1, an author's perspective

Macbook air M1, feedback: The subjective point of view of a storyteller on a Mac.

I like silence.

People who know me know that, they would probably even say that it is an understatement. I'm this daredevil boyfriend who will make you walk for two hours in the less lively streets of a city to chat rather than follow you in a noisy bistro without intimacy. Because, yes, for me, noise is the enemy.

As far back as I've been fiddling with computers, I've always dreamed of a machine that's both powerful and completely silent. A tool capable of accompanying my thoughts so discreetly that it would be completely forgotten.

And because of my profession, I have been able to use many very expensive machines promising this technological miracle over the years. But the promises were never kept.

There was always the sound of an unsightly fan that was spoiling the user experience, an unpleasant keyboard to use see unreliable. The sharp stridulation of a charger that scuttled the rare periods where the machine itself managed to remain silent. The suspicious sizzle of resistance, somewhere, in the chassis of the craft. Bugs, crashes, untimely slowdowns. Not to mention autonomy problems, or catastrophic pointing devices...

Why is the MacBook Air arguably the best word processor for an author (if your budget allows...)?

With this MacBook Air M1, Apple has fulfilled my dream of a completely silent machine. A confidante always ready to welcome the flow of my words and thoughts while being forgotten. Lighting and loading near-instant applications. Flawless responsiveness of the interface, no bugs found over two months of intense use. A perfect keyboard according to my tastes and without a doubt the best trackpad you can find on a portable machine. And from afar.

So, yes, it's Apple. It's expensive. Yes, you can find computers for portable word processing unless one-fifth of the prize who will do the job.

But if you are looking for a tool that will suffice on its own, nomadic, with phenomenal power and autonomy and absolutely without competition at the moment I write these lines ...

If you know you're going to spend hours and hours on it...

If you have the budget and the need...

So, yes, this MacBook is definitely the best word processor an author can use.

Seth Messenger, completed in Poissy on February 17, 2022 at 8:05 p.m.